Flinders Ranges

I mean a working boot.

The kind made in a tin shed in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia in the early 1930s.

made from a single piece of leather, hand-stitched, the elastic side sitting flush and firm.

Built for someone who was going to spend 12 hours in the saddle and needed their feet to still be working at the end of it.

In the early 1930s, the Depression was making everything harder.

Work was scarce, money scarcer.

Williams made his way to South Australia and joined the United Aborigines Mission, an interdenominational Christian group that had established a mission at Nepabunna in the northern Flinders Ranges among the Adnyamathana people, the Yura.

the people of those ranges, whose country had been progressively taken over by pastoralists since the mid-1800s.

Just knocked out Clare in 1997 on 4.8. Robe had one in 1948.

That was at 5.5. Up in the mid-north, near Melrose, had a 5.6. Flinders Ranges, 5.8. Adelaide had somewhere in the 5.5 to 6.

Warooka was number four.

What number was

The latest Electoral Commission figures had 3.74 million voters on the roll, but just under 70% of eligible 18 to 24-year-olds, down from over 75% at the previous two polls.

And today's good news, scientists are celebrating 80 years since one of the world's most important fossil finds was made in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.

In 1946, geologist Reg Sprigg discovered fossils of soft-bodied sea creatures that lived about 555 million years ago, making them the oldest known evidence of complex life on Earth.

At the time, many scientists didn't believe life that advanced could be so old.

Similar fossils have since been found on every continent except Antarctica.

More than 58,000 hectares of the Flinders Ranges has been nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Listing Protection, which would recognise it as a place of global importance.

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Yeah, nothing in the southeast really getting into the rain gauges, although we can see a few spits on the radar.

There's been a little bit more around the sort of lofties, I guess maybe the Adelaide Hills, up into sort of the Flinders Ranges and I guess some parts of the Murraylands District as well.

In terms of actually in the rain gauges, the highest so far since 9am has been about 2.5mm at Sheog Log.

Yaldara has about a millimetre.

But, yeah, most places looking at sort of, yeah, less than a millimetre, obviously.

And, look, I think that's going to be the story for today.

There's a bit of a trough that's sort of lingering through from the Murraylands up into the Flinders Ranges and the sort of, I guess, up towards...

At the moment, it looks like it's sitting in between Wyala and Port Augusta, and it's sort of going to linger through that central part and bring a few showers today, but it's going to be mostly low single-digit rainfalls, I expect.

Not sure what you're seeing out there in terms of numbers and activity.

But here in our state, the state government has begun targeted aerial spraying across parts of the Mid-North and Flinders Ranges, and there are subsidies for control programs for landholders.

However, in Victoria, growers there say they're being largely left to manage the problem of locusts themselves.

Victoria's Chief Plant Health Officer with Agriculture Victoria, Dr Stephen Dibley, had this response to concerns about support for affected farmers.

Cleve had 5mm and and Mount Bryan in the mid-north, 2.2.

So not huge falls, but, yeah, there's a few drops around since 9 a.m., We're yet to record sort of any significant rainfall, but we do have some showers and thunderstorms moving up through the northeast pastoral district, just north of the Flinders Ranges.

And we are expecting some development of some showers and thunderstorms about the Flinders Ranges and down north.

into the Riverland and Murraylands over the next couple of hours.

In fact, we're sort of starting to see a little bit of lightning activity in the Riverland now.

A little bit of wet weather for the eastern parts this afternoon, but then sort of clearing to some drier conditions until around Friday and then over the weekend where we'll see those conditions cooling down quite significantly again over the weekend.

So over the next four days, in terms of rainfall accumulations, we've got...

Looking at around 2 to 10 millimetres, sort of broadly across the state, over the agricultural areas, the Flinders Ranges and in the other far northwest, we could see those totals getting up to around... 15 millimetres and within sort of the thunderstorm activity could produce some isolated falls of sort of 15 to 25 millimetres so that's probably more likely again over the next sort of 6 to 12 hours through the eastern districts Cassie.

It's exactly in that area.

Flinders Range is that entire mountain range there, which is sort of at the bottom of.

That's the most active area of South Australia.

So if you look at a map of earthquakes, which we publish a map every week of earthquakes in South-East Australia.

And Flinders Range is often featured, so we locate about 30 or 40 earthquakes every week in the region.

So there's always a little bit of activity there, and this one's one of the larger ones.

So there you have it.